CONTENTS
- Black Music
- Bluegrass
- Blues
- Cajun Music
- Classical Music and Opera
- Country Music
- Dance, Black
- Dance, Development of
- Festivals, Folk Music
- Gospel Music, Black
- Gospel Music, White
- Hip-Hop and Rap
- Honky-Tonk Music
- Jazz
- Minstrelsy
- Música Tejana
- Music Industry
- Protest Music
- R&B
- Radio
- Ragtime
- Rockabilly
- Rock and Roll
- Sacred Harp
- Soul Music
- Southern Rock
- Spirituals
- Square Dancing and Clogging
- Western Swing
- Zydeco
- Accordion
- Acuff, Roy
- Ailey, Alvin
- All-Day Singings
- Allison, Mose
- Allman Brothers Band
- Armstrong, Louis
- Arrested Development
- Austin City Limits
- Autry, Gene
- Bailey, DeFord
- Baker, Etta
- Balfa, Dewey
- Banjo
- Beach Music
- Beale Street
- Bechet, Sidney
- Blackwood Brothers
- Bland, Bobby “Blue”
- Blues-Singing Women
- Bolden, Buddy
- Brooks, Garth
- Brown, James
- Brumley, Albert
- Buffet, Jimmy
- Burnett, Chester Arthur (Howlin’ Wolf)
- Burnside, R. L.
- Byrd, Henry (Professor Longhair)
- Carter Family
- Cash, Johnny
- Charles, Ray
- Chenier, Clifton
- Cline, Patsy
- Coltrane, John
- Cooke, Sam
- Daniels, Charlie
- Dawson, William Levi
- Diddley, Bo
- “Dixie”
- Dixie Chicks
- Dixie Hummingbirds
- Dr. John
- Domino, Fats
- Donaldson, Lou
- Dorsey, Thomas
- Dulcimer
- Engel, Lehman
- Estefan, Gloria
- Fiddle and Fiddlers’ Conventions
- Fisk Jubilee Singers
- Foster, Stephen
- Fountain, Pete
- Franklin, Aretha
- Gillespie, Dizzy
- Golden Gate Quartet
- Gottschalk, Louis Moreau
- Grand Ole Opry
- Green, Al
- Guthrie, Woody
- Handy, W. C.
- Harris, Emmylou
- Hayes, Isaac
- Hays, Will
- Hee Haw
- Hill, Faith
- Holly, Buddy
- Hooker, John Lee
- Hopkins, Lightnin’
- Howell, Peg Leg
- Hurt, Mississippi John
- Jackson, Mahalia
- Jefferson, Blind Lemon
- Jennings, Waylon
- Jiménez, Flaco
- Johnson, Bunk
- Johnson, Robert
- Johnson, Tommy
- Jones, George
- Joplin, Janis
- Joplin, Scott
- Jordan, Louis
- Kimbrough, David “Junior”
- King, B. B.
- Ledbetter, Huddie (Leadbelly)
- Lewis, Furry
- Lewis, Jerry Lee
- Lomax, John A.
- Louisiana Hayride
- Lunsford, Bascom Lamar
- Lynn, Loretta
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Macon, Uncle Dave
- Malaco Records
- Mandolin
- Marsalis, Wynton
- Mercer, Johnny
- Meters
- Mexican Border Stations
- Minnie, Memphis
- Monk, Thelonious
- Monroe, Bill
- Morganfield, McKinley (Muddy Waters)
- Morton, Jelly Roll (Ferdinand Le Menthe)
- Muscle Shoals Sound
- Nashville Sound
- Nelson, Willie
- Neville Brothers
- New Orleans Sound
- Oliver, King
- OutKast
- Parsons, Gram
- Parton, Dolly
- Patton, Charley
- Pearl, Minnie
- Peer, Ralph
- Penniman, Richard (Little Richard)
- Pickett, Wilson
- Powell, John
- Preservation Hall
- Presley, Elvis
- Price, Leontyne
- Price, Ray
- Pride, Charley
- Rainey, Ma. See Rainey, Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett
- Rainey, Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett (Ma Rainey)
- Redding, Otis
- Reece, Florence
- Reed, Jimmy
- R.E.M.
- Revival Songs
- Ring Shouters
- Ritchie, Jean
- Rodgers, Jimmie
- Scruggs, Earl
- Seeger, Mike
- Shape-Note Singing Schools
- Shore, Dinah
- Silas Green Show
- Smith, Bessie
- Southern Culture on the Skids
- Spears, Britney
- Stax Records
- Still, William Grant
- String Band Tradition
- Stuart, Marty
- Sun Records
- Swamp Pop
- Sweeney, Joel Walker
- Taylor, Koko
- Tharpe, Sister Rosetta
- Thornton, Willie Mae “Big Mama”
- Tubb, Ernest
- Turner, Ike and Tina
- Vaughan, James D.
- Washington, Dinah
- Watson, Doc
- WDIA
- Wells, Kitty
- Whittaker, Hudson (Tampa Red)
- Wild Magnolias
- Williams, Hank
- Williams, Hank, Jr.
- Williams, Lucinda
- Wills, Bob
- Wilson, Cassandra
- WLAC
- Wynette, Tammy
- Young, Lester